Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have made a discovery that could pave the way for a transformative era in photonic ...

Scientists from AMOLF, in partnership with Delft University of Technology, have pioneered a groundbreaking method for ...

Cost-effective chiral nanostructures enable precise light control at the nanoscale, advancing applications in sensing, imaging, and emerging quantum technologies. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from ...

Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in electronics. As fast as modern electronics have become, they could ...

Humans have been studying and playing with light for millennia — from the ancient civilizations using rock crystals to magnify objects and focus sunlight to ignite fires, to Galileo who sparked the ...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of an array formed by 45 nm colloidal Au nanoparticles self-assembled into chiral motifs, in this case triskelions, fabricated using a template-assisted ...

Counterintuitively, as insets IV and V show, a state gets trapped completely by a band gap material with a finite and very small thickness. The first configuration, a strip geometry of a photonic ...

This “heterostructure” consists of a stack of multiple different thin films, including a collection of aligned carbon nanotubes with different orientations. As fast as modern electronics have become, ...